I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.

Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South.

The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.